LINKBLOG for March 6, 2009
Mar 6th, 2009 by AZuidhof
What can Software Designers Learn from Video Games? – Brian Harris
‘ Application developers waste too much of their time playing video games, right?
Wrong ‘.Net Developer Survey – Results – Matt Berseth
Team Building your MSI – How to build a Setup Project via Team Build – Greg Duncan
‘ Remember friends don’t let friend use “F5” (or right click/build) as a long term deployment mechanism… ‘Rebooting My Development Environment – David Starr
As an exception to all Team System battering, David is not that unhappy with it‘ I am not unhappy with the tooling I am getting and will probably uninstall NCover, NUnit, TestDriven.NET and stay with what I am getting from VSTS ‘Moq 3.0 RTM!!! – Daniel Cazzulino
C# 4, Dynamic Overloads – Mike Taulty
‘ Another experiment with C# 4 and the “dynamic type” ‘20 Time & Energy Drains You Can Eliminate – Leo Babauta
‘ It’s amazing how we can while away our days by doing practically nothing, and feeling busy and stressed while doing it ‘12+ open source projects for .NET you probably didn’t know about – Paul Anthony
Movies I’m Looking Forward To (March-May 2009) – Rhonda Tipton
Rhonda points out a couple upcoming movies, which all IMHO are geek enough to be mentioned hereThe F-Word In Software Development – Rajiv Popat
Rajiv has a great post on the small path between total Failure (no, it’s not about *that* F-word) and Success; must be the first time I see it stated without a doubt thatF-word == Success)
‘ Long story short, If you can’t take the F-word sportingly, there is something fu@#ed up with your style of working ‘Why people do not see how smart your idea is at first – Ian Cooper [MVP]
‘ Of course we could put our head in the sands and just say it’s up to the rest of the community to work through I to Z, but too often we do not document our footsteps well enough for others to follow in them ‘ Ian applies this to Alt.NET and argues that this movement can draw a valuable lesson here that is often forgottenRead Web Articles in a Beautiful & Distraction Free Environment – Amit Agarwal
Brilliant and beautiful: click a bookmarklet and remove every distraction from a web page to make it almost a joy to read it. Tool: ReadabilityThe Ideal Agile Workspace – Mike Cohn
‘ I put together a list of all the things that I think should be visible within the ideal agile workspace ‘Accounting for bugs the agile way – part II – Jack Milunsky
Test-driven development with code generation – Laila Bougria
‘ The software factory generates, on one side, production code, and on the other side, tests to verify the generated code. So tha’s all good and well, but… ‘Smarten Up Instead Of Generating Dumb Tests – Davy Brion
Davy has a slightly different approach than Laila above hereA 3 minute guide to embedding IronPython in a C# application – Leon Bambrick
‘ I’ve decided to write my own text editor.
This is a bad thing. Only fools write their own text editor. Soon, hair will start growing on the palms of my hand ‘
‘ Tea drinking is important to developing software. It matters how you drink it, as well as how you prepare the tea ‘
‘ No doc’s or samples that I could quickly find (except for a few in the inline XML), but the the description above, and the price, was enough to catch my eye ‘Eager loading a One-to-Many collection w/ NHibernate – Derik Whittaker
Wonderful post. We should all rise and discuss these issues with management, if you haven’t already done soHow and Why I Missed The Boat As A Developer – Lee Brandt
‘ To those who have had to support my crappy legacy code, I profusely apologize. You know who you are, and you undoubtedly know who I am ‘ Reminds me of that great Dijkstra article The Humble ProgrammerTroubleshooting Windows MSI Installers – Phil Haack
‘ Every time I read on Twitter that someone is having trouble installing ASP.NET MVC, a new ulcer throbs in my side ‘
Phil comes up with a troubleshooting guide for MSI woes, not MVC specific
Funny everyone in the contest seems on a Mac
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